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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Cool! I think next meeting I’ll go over Pandoc Markdown, the Markdown flavor used by the most excellent Pandoc document converter, and next month will be either Latex/Overleaf or Hugo.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Pandoc <a href="https://pandoc.org/">https://pandoc.org/</a> is a wonderful tool for converting between just about any document format. I use it for converting notes I take on an Alphasmart Dana in Markdown into PDF. I’ve also used it for translating Latex documents into MS Word.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For the curious, the Alphasmart line of devices was a set of smart keyboards that you could use to type up text documents on the fly, then connect to a USB port on a computer where it would emulate a hardware keyboard to “type” the document into whatever software was open. They were sadly killed off by netbooks/cheap laptops/tablets which brought an end to offline computing. I hold out hope that someone will resurrect the idea one day.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:mark@galassi.org">Mark Galassi</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, March 12, 2021 12:33 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:ted.pome@gmail.com">Ted Pomeroy</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:nmglug@lists.nmglug.org">NMGLUG.org mailing list</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [nmglug] Mtg. Tonight</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> Also Art B. will be giving us more information on the typesetting program</p><p class=MsoNormal>> and Markdown(a markup language) at a future meeting.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I'd love to be there for that: I've been doing a lot of evaluation of documentation formats lately.</p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>nmglug mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>nmglug@lists.nmglug.org</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>